is like a human synth, a poet and performer who presents his verse in a constant, almost robotic wave. Bills, bus tickets, packs of cigarettes, leaflets—all of this banal, everyday rubbish is verbalized, repeated, and rearranged in a chant-like performance that at times seems mechanical. Chaton entered the electronic music world almost unintentionally when he started collaborating with Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), who now produces his work under the Raster-Noton label. A hypnotic Performance.

Das Ding (nl)

In the early 80s, punk, post-punk and new wave inspired a lot of DIY intitiatieven including cassette labels. Tear Apart Tapes was an excuse for Danny Bosten and Johan de Koeijer to publish and distribute their own music and that of others. Das Ding is electronic music, mostly inspired by the equipment itself, sequencers and synthesizers, rigid and robotesk. Internet plays a major role in the emergence of all those obscure releases, and labels like Minimal Wave and Analogue Records are specialised in re-issuing those items. In 2007, 433rpm, of the exhaustive music blog ‘No Longer Forgotten Music’, posted some of his old Das Ding tapes, and Veronica Vasicka- who runs the New York based ‘Minimal Wave’ label and specializes in reissues of 80s synth-wave proposed the release of a Das Ding album. Old tapes were uncovered, and Minimal Wave released a remastered version of ‘HSTA’ and other tracks, in 2010. A wave of renewed interest followed the record’s release and soon people were in touch to propose live shows. Thirty years later, and after some deliberation, Das Ding was reincarnated under its old moniker but now with a revised line-up and a working set-up that reflected inevitable technological change. Suddenly, Das Ding was a ‘Dutch electro-pioneer’ and the apparent pinnacle of ‘Minimal Wave’.